Word: disrespect
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...tenure, it has been generally accepted, understood and the topic of jokes that Chief Johnson has a problem with me as a woman in the Police Department," Stanford wrote. "It is common knowledge that he refers to me in conversation as being a bitch and often regards me with disrespect and contempt...
...women leaders say they have faced blatant disrespect. Harvard-Radcliffe Republican Club President Karen E. Boyle '94 says she has never been treated differently by the men who outnumber her in the club...
Even more damaging than the disrespect is the possibility of harassment, which the report found was widespread in science departments. A recent update, authored by Friend, found that for female graduate students in the sciences, such incidents are still a problem...
...colleagues are not the only source of differential treatment. Students often visualize the ideal Ivy League professor as the gray-haired white man, a model into which women and minorities do not fit, professors say. And disrespect based on such images may be fought by adding to the ranks of female professors...
...independent adults from doing as they please with their bodies, in the name of a constituency (the unborn) who are not universally recognized as possessing rights or deserving defense. Moreover, the protesters envision their actions as a life-and-death matter. This situation superficially suggests that fanatical violence and disrespect for the rights of doctors and women are always implicit in pro-life activism...